[Elrond Hubbard]

And there are other examples when Gretel would treat the housemates like her children and herd them around tell them off, speaking to them like a martinet mother.

Even more creepily was she actually started a relationship with evicted housemate Saxon(who was about 19, while she was in her thirties!). He moved in with her and they were together for a while.

Talk about UNPROFESSIONAL!!!!!

Another thing I hated about our old shows was Gretel would actually shout at the crowds to be quite - I LOVE the freedom in the Pommy show where the crowds can ACTUALLY voice their opinions/hatred/love for HMs and show how they feel. When we first saw that we were like, "OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!", after YEARS of buttoned down Aussie audiences told to "BE QUIET!!!!!" by the screaming harpy hostess!!!